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donderdag 3 april 2014

My pimped dictionary.

Hello blogfriends, I wanted to show you my pimped old English dictionary. I joined the Craft Barn challenge last year, where you would be given a letter each two weeks. Then you had to pick a word starting with that particular letter and depict the word any way you would choose on that page, leaving the word open. All that was left to do, was to pimp the outside of my book, and this is the result.

I started by gessoing the book twice. It had a burgundy red linnen cover, and on my first coat of gesso I found it bled colour. Then I started gluing all sort of stuff down. I used Tim Holtz dies, some metal and then gessoed everything again.

This is the back of the book which I kept a little flatter in order for the book to be able to lay flat.

After all these steps I started spraying with Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays. Then I used some Rub 'n Buff gold, splattered some Indian ink and smudges the edges of the book with Stazon black. A few detail pictures.

This is a fabulous cover for your journal. I love how you have done this with all of the layering and texture.... stunning!! Thank you for joining our mini challenge at Anything But A Card. Cheers, Di.